Paul Klee Quotes

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.

I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

I embrace everything.

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

Love is the whole and more than all.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

The true is the whole.

Right is right only when entire.

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.

As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.